Reid Schaefer

Last Season

Six goals and two assists in 47 games — eight points, minus-12, at 9:38 a night with 17 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 22.

The Finesse Game

The shot location is the encouraging part: 47 per cent of his unblocked attempts from inside twenty feet, median 20, and six goals from 59 tries.

Two assists in 47 games is the whole of the playmaking, and there is no evidence any is coming.

The Physical Game

Six foot five, 226, and it is the case for him. He goes to the net, he finishes checks, and he is difficult to move once he has position.

The skating is the problem and it is a serious one. He cannot forecheck at NHL pace, which is why a man this size gets under ten minutes a night.

The Intangibles

Forty-one point two per cent of the expected goals — third percentile — and 43.1 per cent of the shot attempts, fourth. Across 446 minutes those are among the worst figures in this edition.

Nashville was a poor club and this is well below even that.

He is 22, a thirty-second overall pick traded from Edmonton, and the shot chart is the one thing arguing for him. Everything else on the page says a fourth-liner who cannot yet play at this speed.